Dr. Dean McCurdy Elected 10th President of Colby-Sawyer College

Dr. Dean G. McCurdy, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Ivy Tech Community College, has been selected unanimously by the Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees to serve as the institution’s 10th president. Prior to becoming provost at Ivy Tech, the nation’s largest singly accredited community college system comprising 19 campuses across Indiana, McCurdy was chancellor for its Kokomo location. In that role, he led record fundraising and managed the Kokomo Transformation Project, a redesign and renovation of the campus.  And, as a professor of biology at Albion College, he directed an honors program and led efforts focused on experiential learning and community engagement for students. McCurdy will join Colby-Sawyer on June 1.